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GRAHAM, SYLVESTER (1794-1851)

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GRAHAM, See also:SYLVESTER (1794-1851) , See also:American dietarian, was See also:born in Suffield, See also:Connecticut, in 1794. He studied at See also:Amherst See also:College, and was ordained to the Presbyterian See also:ministry in 1826, but he seems to have preached but little. He became an ardent See also:advocate of See also:temperance reform and of See also:vegetarianism, having persuaded himself that a flesh See also:diet was the cause of abnormal cravings. His last years were spent in retirement and he died at See also:Northampton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 11th of See also:September 1851. His name is now remembered because of his advocacy of unbolted (Graham) See also:flour, and as the originator of " Graham See also:bread." But his reform was much broader than this. He urged, primarily, physiological See also:education, and in his See also:Science of Human See also:Life (1836; republished, with See also:biographical memoir, 1858) furnished an exhaustive See also:text-See also:book on the subject. He had carefully planned a See also:complete regimen including many details besides a strict diet. A Temperance (or Graham) Boarding See also:House was opened in New See also:York See also:City about 1832 by Mrs Asenath See also:Nicholson, who published Nature's Own Book (2nd ed., 1835) giving Graham's rules for boarders; and in See also:Boston a Graham House was opened in 1837 at 23 Brattle See also:Street. There were many Grahamites at See also:Brook See also:Farm, and the American Physiological Society published in Boston in 1837 and 1838 a weekly called The Graham See also:Journal of See also:Health and See also:Longevity, designed to illustrate by facts and sustain by See also:reason and principles the science of human life as taught by Sylvester Graham, edited by See also:David See also:Campbell. Graham wrote See also:Essay on See also:Cholera (1832); The Esculapian Tablets of the Nineteenth See also:Century (1834) ; Lectures to See also:Young Men on Chastity (2nd ed., 1837); and Bread and Bread Making; and projected a See also:work designed to show that his See also:system was not See also:counter to the See also:Holy Scriptures.

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